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VO XII. O.57 NWBR. S.0 PfA. JUL 1390q ILLMAN DENOUNCES i, LYON AND HIS WORK" THE SENIOR SENATOR MAKES h BITTER ATTACK. il A Vast Crowd Hears Senator Tillman il Discuss Dispensary and State It Politics-Takes up the Piano Matter Aga;in. 0 t< The State, 10th. -& Senator B. R. Tilnman, candidate h( for re-election, ''eut tihe tail'' of the S eamipaigni party and ''eamped'' here o for awhile yesterday. IIe heard the eq othei candidates' speeches and obser-v- o e'd that somle bore thle 'branld' or-P, tle 'l. R. T.'' niehl while others i were ''mavericks whom le had beel e unab.11fle to ''rope inl aid tic down' ider a '* * ' 11 ay other h ''branld.1 Ie disdained to participate when u tle slort horns, mavericks and good e steers all caie into the corral, and fi a private round ip) was accorded a this as yet unlassoed borine. ti There were probably 2,000 pIeo)le si present last night and many of them, unacquainted with the senator's Imeth- b ods of campaigning, might not have C understood his gesticulated and t grimaced refereinces to ''straddlers,'' le and the like, but some who were pres- e ent, disciples gathered from many f counties, can read between the lines A and cani go back to their homes and a tell whom ''Ben Tillman is suppor- e tin','' as well as those whom le 'is p ''agin.''He enthused the big crowd at times last night, for the populace loves a fighter, and Tillman hit a straight from the shoulder, although , at times he took a ''breeches holt.'' y Senator Tillman is in fine form phy- y sically, although he has been aged and softened since the rantankerous u and rampant and radical days of his debut. He has improved i'n the graces d of public speaking and is as fine an actor as ever lie was. . The climactic part of his speech r last night was his denunciation of Mr. tn J. Fra1ser Ly%-onl. Ile has beenl taking a shot at 0he investigating committee a ever since it was organized and last. w night lie wound ilup in ati impassioned i deelai-ation that Mr Lyon is a ''liar,'' p an ''infamous slanderer,'' and infer- Ie entially that he is a backguard,'' no gentleman and a man without courage. Mr. Lyon was not present at tle meetiw.. When asked later over tle In 'phone if lie had any statement to a, make, lie said that he would wait, and read what Seniator Tillman had said is and that at the proper time. lie would il specify and Imlake good. s The two will not meet today and sc may not for some time. Senator Till- b) man leaves at 5 o'clock a. i. for d Lexinglon county and Mr. Lyon at 7 a. i. for Orangeburg. There is no doubt; about it that Senator Tillman a was efftive in his assault, last night. Mr. Lyvon 's reply will 1he awaited with interest. *t The Meeting. el There was a tremenidous crowd~ at Ia he state house. t he evening beinge lear and fthe showv at thle park theatre si being ''oni the bum.' ' A great many jil in thle crowdl were dyed in thle wvoohl~ I ad(mirers of theq senator 0and others 'T came to hear. The hall of the house hi of representatives being, inadequate b to 1h01( the crowd, the meeting was adjourned to the portico of the capi-. tol. On the landing midway of the stair, Senator Tillman took his t stand and( foi more than an hour and t a quarter lhe spoke of State polities, at the conclusion saying that lhe wvould go to Washington and represent the' peop)le as faithfully 'as he had d1one tI for 12 yearnsIi Senator Tillman was very much pleased at tihe reception wvhich wast given him. When lie had first walked t in the d~or sof tihe hall some of hisC friends announced his arrival with hand clapping and this was taken up 0 all. over the hall. The galleries were filled wit'.iladies.' When lie had got room enough on the steps4 to speak a little, Senatorli Tillman b)egav. to a(ddress the people I h by saying that his first inaugural ad- JC dress had been delivered from near ) this very spot, but the people of Co- h lumbia had not turned out to hear him then. He had never been a favor in Columbia. They had been beat.. i and were angry and took no part the inauguration. Voice: ''It's changed now.' Tillman: "Well, it's not because I ive changed.'' And tjen lie went on into a state ent that he had never cherished an3 I feeling toward the people of Co. Inbia. For four years .lie had been govern. ., lie Continued, and then for oi( rm senator and he had been re-elect. I without oppositioin-except such a. lhas had in -this race. (Laughter) ix years ago his opponent had mIad< ie speecl and lad quit. In thi ipaign ie hla( iot h iad the pleasur( even netinw- his distinguished op inent, Col. Luipkii. le believe! m't le will go backl with the undivid I vole of ti he people. A least. lie lopes to it) so. But h< IS 1aped)( oiut a programlille wIliel ills for 20 speeches ini tie iext feNi elks and if' anly feel a1"grieved be iiise ie will exwecise tle right of 'ee citizenl and disciss issues, ''the. e it liberty to serac i lly na1m11e of] te ticket. againl as 18,000 of you di( N years ago.' ''Solic people say I am trying t( your boss, to dictate to you,'' I )itined. ''They know they are nol Iling the truth. I have been you1 ader. I have had the courage t< )ile out on the line and lead th ghting wiihenever I saw my duty 'hy should I surrender iny righti a citizen? Wlhy should I not giv4 cpression to those views?'' (Ap lause). The Brice Law. With these prefatory remarks, Sen tor Ti'llman declared that in th< munties which had voted out the dis nisary there are 55,000 Democratii ters. But the disiensary had beet )ted out in the general elections it hieh less than 20,000 voters partici ited. A great inny may have bee mied the right to vote as they di( It have their registration certifi ites. Others had beel) 00 much hle Iddled by the corruption and thi 11k of corruption. ''lien to the audience, as a Richilan idiece, lie said: ''If you don'1 ant the dispeisary, vote ini tle pri ary where all free Deinocrats cem Articipate anld seldIl meni to th< gislatulre who will take it olit.' Voice: ''Take it away.' Tillnan: ''If you doi't want it ite it out. The real ineaniing of Till. ainismn is to let one vote go as fai He then veit oil to say that ther< 11o need for factionalism. As ai stianlce lie cited' that ''Ile onice d. >ised Ben 'ilimall'' Cold speak t( large an audience as this in Colum, a, thus proving that factionalism i, mad. Clubs. He is ill favor o(lf that systen hii(hi will best conitrol tle sale '"'( ie damnable stuff'' as some peopk ill it-and1 then they will go upl t( ie Columbia club and drink it. A ubl in Greenville wanted a chartii 1(d when the secretary of state ask I t he presidlent of thle chibi to sign ii atemuent. that there wguld lie ne licit sale of whiskey in the club ie president said it was an insult illmian was greet9d with cheers whem said that there is, thlerefore, on<( ind tiger less in Greenville. Money. In favoring the dispensary lie con ssed natively that if there is money 'be nmade out of it, lie would likt see the State get it. ''The mnan ho objects to the profits is a hligh-. type of main than I am,'' said Till. an. HeI then p)aid his respects te tat Marlboro school board which id decliined the profits and said that them thley had been piut up to it om icy were people wh'lo had nevcr vot I for himm (Tillman). lie dleclaredl that lie 1has no quarrel ith the prohibitionists, but as we 'e goinig to have whiskey any way, t us hare thie system which hlas mit lip b)arroomns and stop)ped the lling on youir streets. Words failed im when lie tried1 to draw a pen lime .rc of thie barrooms wvith their arti eial iattractionis. If the money is to sent to Georgia and North Caro ia or to be p)aid to the express comn my, why not keep it hereant home. Graft. Those gentimen say that the di# pensary is rotten. Let's grant that. Who made it so? The legislature. They first put the control in the hands of men who handle this $3,000, 000 business and get $400 a year fot' it. (This with a grimmace of disgust which made the eroA-d whoop with enjoyment.) This gave those men the fullest opportunity or stealing. There were Io restriction ''and 1 suspect there was somie stealing going he added. Oetting back to the( legislature he salid that lie law had been fixed so ithat lie legislature delegations had ,heleed the couniy boards. Now wheni tle expose caIe last summer inl Spar1tabnbulgrg atd it was shown that the reswals selected )y the legislative delegations had been receiviiig bribes for dispeisary .jobs the cry went tup aaintist tle dispenisa ry. The legis l.1ilure was resilnsible. Ihe had lieard one speaker say duri invu tle dav y: ''1K;I tie rotten and cor rupt thi in on Ite (ongarce.'' Till man's reiiedv is: ''Let's minimize the evil and theni get all tle money out of it We (al. Mind you, I flon't I illeain to put iimy reasons Oin lie prOfit basis alone. He then sailed into the county dis iensary scheme. If one board -will steal, how will You keep 30 separate boards from stealing? It. will merely increase the number of pockets. He then called attention to his planl, the Raysor-Mailniing bill, published ill his Sandy Flat speeci. This plan, with a governor woli is not afraid of his shadow, could stop all of this illicit deviltry. For Governor. The issue in the State campaign is the election of a governor. Four can didates are on the dispensary platL form. Four are against the dispen - sary. Of these latter, one is for local option, onle is for local option witi l its tail cut off (laughter), and one is for prolibitionl. - ' am not goinig to meddle in this race,'' said Sena.tor Tillman, and then he proceeded to tell what kind of maii to elet. A man,111 of pure life, pri vately and. inl public, a man against whom no reioacli could be brou.git. a .1 111111 wihose outgoing and inicominl.t! emlid le tracked without bringing any feeling of shame to the State. ''But have all tle pestiferous, candy-giviing baby-kissiig, fenlce-straddling candi dates killed out entirely.'' (Cheers.) County Dispensaries. Ile wants a ticket for a reformed dispensar ,y in every c!mnt*y. lIe t0it told of tile ''gaie'' which lie allegel is beinl- played by the opponents of1 tle State dispensary system. They would have (dispensaries under couity management. Soon there would be cOrruiption somlewlere and they Would exclaim: 'We were unable to keep corrlipt out of the State dispensary, now away with county dispensaries.' They would start the cry, ''Let's take the county out of the dispensary biusi ness, '' just as the cry is now going uip 'Let 's take the gr'and old Palmielto state (lit of tho littuor buiineitss.' Th is last Tillman said1 withi much sar' easim which made the crowd1 laugh. Then whlat after county dispensari ics?' Prohiibitioni? Oh, no. Thiere arie those who t hinuk of thle (lay when they ran their b)arrooms 01nd wore their diamond rings. They long for a ire turn of that day. ''Barrooms under1c constitutional restrictions,'' lie said, significantly. He ridiculed the blind tiger situa tion in Charleston. The mayor (if that city had sworn before the inves tigating committee that b)y great ef fort they 1had reduced the number of blind1 tigers to 120 and every few months the police judge would round( them 'up and exact a license from them. (Laughter). That's the way pro'(hiblitioni works in Kansas, lie said. ''We tried to force local self-govern-. menit in 1860,'' lie said1, in dlirecting the local optionists, ''and now ini Charleston they have a nullification11 (of thle dlisp)ensary law.' In catching his breath for his final roundl(, Seniatoir Tillman commiienced1 on the fact that political conditions are so calm that ladies can com1e ouit to the meetings-and this is the first time in his life he has addressed an (Continued on Page Six). INSANE MAN KILLS WIFE AND CHILDR: OOLLETON FARMER SLAYS or HIS FAMILY. J. W. Irnegan Informs His Neighl of His Mad Deed and Describef the Murder. ()i Wednesday morning, just fore (ay-break, .1. W. rnegan, a N% to-do fa rmier* of Rulins, Coll( coiint , say ia rpveeial to the Colun State, took an axe and slew his v anid 1three clildreni, wlile they % asleep The dend are Mrs. Olivia Trnet ived 31 ii his cliibdren, Carrie, ag 'I'lioias, age 4, and illie May, 1g Aon as lie had slain his fan Iroe-anl weit to his Iiearesl nich Alr. Isaae Salsbulry, a Ind reporte Io lii. AlIr. Salsbullry and severa thIghbor t4lok 11rn1V an inlto tmdy and carried him to Ala,ist 1,hn1er, vlo sent lii to jail b1 When Seen] by a representative of State, Irnegani said lie had killed wife and clildreni, but (lid not k why lie had done so, . ltat lie h IlItem dearly and ihat they had alv - Volvi alolngN well to-etlier. le lie did not know when lie killed il but tlat. it was almost daylight, w lie had gotten thirougli. He sail used anl axe. Irnegan is a well-to-do farmer, -lives about one mile from Rufins. is in(istrious and has a nice fi He Seems to be a1 man of abou years of age. le came to this Col from Sweden. and kept books fo 11. )annelly, I 4reat many years. married Miss Olivia An drews of liams, this county. There is 11 d1 about the man's being insane. tried to take his own life abolit years ago by entiting his tlroal 0 ralor. l neighibors say he been actin,. s raingel v of late. lie a juror at tlie sessions court held I last week. IIaterl- - m -re 1rn-iel-ani. eldest of .1. W. Iriegan, who was though h)ave been slain b hv his fatlier, just been broug,hit to Walterhoro t ie t rain fronit ulinils. Ilis head face are both e.rnshed inl hut le is alive. lie was carried to the ii mary. wlere lie is now being open on by ])rs. lIsdon1 ad Ackern, his condiion is saidl to Ie critical. NEGRO ASSAULTS WOMAN Northern Woman Thought Ni "Perfect Gentleman.' '-Brute Makes Escape. The State. Aiken, July 11.-News of a I ble crime thIiat was perpvt ra ted al live miles from A.\iken reached I yesterdlay aifternoon, but a cohli account could iiot be 0otined this morniing. - On Moniday morning about o 'clock AMrs. L. N. Chlapini was assaL edi ini lier homne by a negro man ni Isaac Kight. The foci .thait I Chiapi n is ant old Ilady, at least years of aice, makes the crime all more revolting. The negro who saulted her had been in her em for over three years.' Mrs. Chu lived in the house with no white soni. The negro man, who livedi room at the side of the house nex .thie kitchen, and a niegro) famnily ing iln the yard were the only< wh'lo stayed near lier. Th'le crime had not become gener kinown in Aiken uint il late yester afternoon, when a posse of abloul men under thec leadlership) of the s iff organhized for the purp'hose of en ing the negro. Mirs. Chopin is Li Nothern b; andi( before lier misfortunite did niot dOvstanid the niatuire of the nie She had pt every Irust in Kn andt evenl dec~(lared on one occa that he was a perfe(ct gentlemn. Yeat-Hlow dloes the colonel roomi onl his breast for Ll his n Crimlsonbea k-Why, thle more n als he gets, the more his chest nands.--Vnkars Statesan. A ors 'V'.k hle ell ton ina ife 'ore '8, SA2. ily, 1it lof (lhe his loW veil oys 4aid henl he and Ile 11. 45 try Cote. I r J. ' 1le MR. BLEASE'S POSITION. Nil mbt States His Platform Clearly an Ile Concisely and Cites Record of t wo) Other Candidates. vith -- has At the -:tafe vnampaignl mieetinl!" i Was the 11111 ol, ih h14iusv (f represent:, WTre lives, in 0,11Clumbi.. In M(oil.y. Sn: mr C(ole. L. Ilense, eadilida.t ,4 s "n"CIIernorv, clearly' madoem a I to his platr fon, as he has donle at tli hla vorm'i.ns Ilhetulin-'.'s (h1uh n 1 onl state. .11d fliale :1 !tr1n (u alk:ick uIp and the revords f11 'Mr. It'. 1. .\la n111ing n111 ;till (ol. .11. T. sloml. senlatr llew. ]itr- A;s liberally- :1pphai dd urn his r<( lIed marks. l bI athi ck tpon ilr. Ali and ni"s mnd 0o. 'Snlmi hli cited the .omt nals itf the senlah. and holnst. of rel U- tleVl,tV' (11164 1 2 I ' .IIl i W I Wie envlme en thi e o of senate an h(iense. and gave te w showi thIeir vot e" o the va riolls (Ilivs1iofs t igro whiph he rifr . ih, rsmorie thv S1 ntor Tillman was he ral anih of the gUnyeraninp blIil. Sinai Trilnan was )resent <hnrinil-,m Bilease Speech. 1li- ( ir. Blease sp,ke in part as ft , mul. l"WS: lIre ''Mr. (iihirman, Ladiis and IeW oent tle e I',1) t'4(11(hi 111 i f iut i h th util1 meet11ill shold be1 hld4ra i the pla'i 2 r wxoc-in tlUIgll l)rl1Itlhave for our hont th ileeiutol of earnir,and at ablot Blease. til(Ihl Illay be kept 'iu to a proper standard. d 1 am11 inl ravor. of bul ilp thle trve school System, So Ohut every while chil in this state may he given a1 .z omnSchool edlieationl, in Co comft1-otable aIll c(lIvl %vlivll Silool 114111ses, .111411 ill paying tenchlers at Slf iient sallryN to seenre the best. 1 I ln oppsed to the higher ediei p t1111 (lif Ill4 e lgro l ,I al lijti ll ravol e ofIthe talx-S paid by N lte white people e (ningt :111t inilsed onlly f*or the1( V 14 11 i:)- I a I (of, w i e (ch(. 1. 1 ildren. 1 .11 am 11) ipp s d to -4 t11he e.xtIra vouIIrt * s VMS 41S it lias heell iraeticed wit'l inl the last couple years. I :nnl opposed to tIhe extrava" gant, appropriatli"ns which aIre bein. mllado b- b the g'ileneral asiemly. S I m i f'.volr of ;I law re<quiring 11lhe arig verlifiente or the glistra tillon of all marr11ia'e..s inl te of to fiev of, the( Mlerk Id thel (ou t, thle I comily inl which the marria.-e takes r phlev. AIso of thie ri-w6stratioll of the r1 <bte of birti of Chilidren. I -mill inl falvor. of the strict elforce - mont11 of1 the vaI ..ra nvy law, anid espee I I arouid towils and eiivs. 1 111n inl hovlv. of rtillming.. lthe unv I- (rillelnt 211 a lil1al hit not exrtava 5! ganti finiase l basis, and( ~in making. Q our1 tax levy, hot h county and state, (e as low as p1ossibl5 e forl a saft and e1( co r' n22mie1.-! managementil3i)t of1 (our govern'f I I amil i favo oII'(f thle d i'spenIlsary sys V f(emI as thle best slhit ion of' thle w~his C key~ (fntion121, and1 in f'avor' of' t he re 1 peal oif the Biie Iaw. 1 1 am1 iln favor of alpropr'ialting a su nofi It excedinig five thtousanid dol f lat's eatch year to be given to the1 e C'onf'eder'ate veterans to be used by them inl such manner' as they see fit for ant annual reunion to be held at 5 sneh p)laces they may select. Mr'. Blease congr'atulatedl the wo ~ III (n f Columbia upon their enter e I aitnment of thle veterans dluring the El last reunion, sayisng they had sent many a veteran back from Columbia S happy and c'he(erful, who may never S aigna have the prlivilege of meeting S withI his ol omr'ades oin t his ear'th. r' Coh. lilease then took up the ree Ii le said(: - I elimi, an ld the2 rQcords1 will showv - t hat I hav ~e alIways been consistentI in I these poi5tionis. My oppontsIl , Mr. Mannlin and111 Coil. Sloan,] Ieaim are0 - no22 c'onisStellt ; but1 t ha t I am thle only dlispienIsary', 011 cnidlate in tIs race. Iln 1892 Mr. Manning voted against the - dispensary as a member (If the hiouise (I of'eprlesentatives. See House Jour 1 ral 574 ano 35 -a.so inn 00 ..,.on